The Penal Colony; Stories and Short Pieces
by Kafka, Franz; Willa and Edwin Muir (Trans)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805231986
- ISBN 13
- 9780805231984
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1948. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0805231986 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; 1949 Schocken Books. HC/DJ 2nd printing. Snugly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Dusy jacket lightly shelf worn with shallow nicks at edges and spine ends; just mild rubbing and toning to jacket surfaces. Contents neat and fresh; no marks. VG+/VG- .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47392
- Title
- The Penal Colony; Stories and Short Pieces
- Author
- Kafka, Franz; Willa and Edwin Muir (Trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0805231986
- ISBN 13
- 9780805231984
- Publisher
- Schocken Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- 0805231986
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...